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According to legends of the Edain, Morgoth visited Men in Hildórien and converted them away from Eru Ilúvatar tricking them into believing they were made mortals as a punishment. However, this was merely a trait bestowed upon men by Eru and not out of punishment. To escape the evil of Morgoth and his followers, the Atanatári were the first to flee Hildórien, travelling west to eventually Beleriand. However, the Men that continued to worship Morgoth followed later on in the First Age with the promise that if they served him, they would receive the rich lands of Beleriand as payment.

Hildórien was possibly deserted by the race of Men and no longer inhabited by the time of the War of the Ring, when Middle-earth had gotten a new terrestrial landscape at the beginning of the Second Age.[2] It is also possible that the two Blue Wizards travelled here, since they were destined to journey to the East.